Lighting device having a lens which gives a long and relatively narrow area of illumination



9 1951 J. L. LEHMAN 2551354 LIGHTING DEVICE HAVING A LENS WHICH GIVES A LONG AND RELATIVELY NARROW AREA OF ILLUMINATION Filed Feb. 21, 1947 2 Sheets-Sheet l w W a H-r-roEA/E/s J. 1.. LEHMAN 2,551,954 HA G A LENS WH GIVES A LONG N ow AREA OF I UMINATION 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 May 8, 1951 LIGHTING DEVI AND RELATIV Flled Feb 21, 1947 Patented May 8, 1951 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE LIGHTING DEVICE HAVING A LENS WHICH GIVES A LONG AND RELATIVELY NAR- ROW AREA OF ILLUMINATION John L. Lehman, St. Louis, Mo.

Application February 21, 1947, Serial No. 729,944

Claims. (01. 24041.4)

The present invention relates to a lighting device. More particularly, it relates to a lens and lamp combination for producing a particularly shaped area of illumination.

This is a continuation in part of copending application, Serial No. 499,639, filed August 23, 1943, for Fixed Lighting Units, abandoned August 20, 1948.

It is an object of this invention to provide a lens that will, when combined with a lamp, give substantially 180 of illumination. It is a further object of the invention to provide a lens that will give a long and relatively narrow, or oblong, area of illumination. It is a further object of the invention to provide such an oblong area of illumination, with controlled and notably even distribution of the light over the entire area. A particular object is to produce a lens of flat over-all shape that may be used with a parabolic reflector to produce an oblong area of illumination over substantially 180.

It is a further object of the invention to provide a lens which may be used in combination with a parabolic reflector to obtain a generally strip-like area of illumination.

It is a further object of the invention to provide a lens that may produce a cross-shaped area of illumination, such as is desirable at street intersections, or the like.

Another object is to provide a lens as aforesaid that accomplishes its objectives from a substantially planar glass.

Other objects will appear from the description to follow.

In the drawings:

Fig. l is a vertical, medial section through a lamp incorporating the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. l, but taken at right angles thereto;

Fig. 3 is a top view of the lens, as shown in Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is a bottom View of the lens shown in Fig. 1, Fig. 4 being taken at right angles to Fig. 3;

Fig. 5 is a transverse section through a portion of the lens, taken on the line 5-5 of Fig. 3;

Fig. 6 is a transverse section through a portion of the lens, taken on the line 6-5 of Fig. 4;

Fig. '7 is a top View of a modified form of lens;

Fig. 8 is a bottom view of the modified lens of Fig. '7;

Fig. 9 is a transverse section through the lens of Fig. 7, taken on the line 9-9 thereof;

Fig. 10 is an enlargement of the center part of Fig. 9;

Fig. 11 is a transverse view of the lens shown in Figs. '7 and 8, taken on the line H-Il of Fig. 8;

Fig. 12 is an enlargement of the center part of Fig. 11;

Fig. 13 is a fragmentary view of a lens, said view being similar to Fig. 9, but representing a slight modification; and

Fig. 14 is a view of the bottom surface of a lens designed to produce a cross-shaped area of illumination.

It has been an object for many years to produce a lamp that would produce approximately of illumination, particularly in long, narrow areas. For example, railway platforms require illumination, but the average lamp directs the light primarily down in a circular area, with additional beams extending in a partially spherical pattern. The circular area is of small diameter, and produces relatively little illumination along the narrow platform. If the circle is larger than the width of the platform, the illumination beyond the lateral limits of the platform is wasted, and frequently undesirable. The direct rays and other rays in the spherical pattern are largely projected beyond the limits of the platform, so as to be wasted or directed onto cars or other objects that preferably should not be subjected to them.

The present invention provides a lamp that directs substantially all of its light in a long, narrow path adapted for such uses as the above. It does this by use with a parabolic reflector and a planar lens, which latter is of advantage both in construction and use over a convex lens.

As the width of areas to be illuminated is usually greater than the width of a lamp, the present invention includes means to widen the elongated light pattern without detracting substantially from its length.

In Figs. 1 and 2, a lamp housing is generally indicated at l5. It holds a lamp l6 having a filament disposed approximately at the point I! therein. As will appear hereinafter, the lamp [6 may have its lower hemisphere I8 rendered opaque, if desired.

The filament ll of the lamp is disposed within a parabolic reflector I9 at approximately the focal point thereof. This reflector is designed to receive the lens, generally designated at 29.

It may be seen by reference to Fig. 1 that from the parabolic reflector (9 there is an area of maximum light intensity, made up of direct rays plus very dense reflected rays. A parabolic re- ,flector directs all the rays of. light striking it straight outwardly, which, in the drawings, is straight downwardly. A line 22, in Figs. 1 and 2, represents a plane through the focal point of the paraboloid. Above this plane 22, there is maximum light intensity, and there will be a cylinder of light projecting forwardly, the cylinder being substantially solid and representing the maximum intensity of the light delivered. The outer part of the reflector below the plane 22 receives light at less density. In fact, if the lower part of the lamp is rendered opaque, as at [8, this outer part of the reflector will receive a minimum of light which is largely light that reaches it because of the inevitable inaccuracy of the parts. But even when the lower part of the lamp i8 is not opaque there will be a less density of light beyond the plane 22 than within it, including both reflected and direct rays.

The lens of the present invention is designed to receive this light and distribute it evenly over a long narrow area. The lens has, on its upper surface, a plurality of flutings 23, which, in Figs. 1, 3 and 5, are shown as being arcuate in cross section, parallel and concave upwardly. They extend, prefer-ably, across the area of maximum illumination, which is a projection of the plane 22. These flutings 23 constitute means to flare the beams of light by bending them in planes transverse to the axes of the flutings, as will appear.

The outer surface of the lens Zll is provided, in Figs. 2, 4 and 6, with a plurality of ribs 25 that are preferably more or less sinusoidal in shape, as shown in Fig. 6. As will appear, the ribs 25 are designed to reflect and refract the beams of light laterally of the ribs and aiford the long area of illumination and the substantially 180 illumination. This 180 illumination means that there are light rays discharged from the lamp, in Fig. 2, substantially laterally from both sides and throughout all of the included angles.

The travel of a beam of light through the flutings 23 is indicated in Fig. 5. Therein, a part beam 28a of a beam 28 is typical of all of the beams emanating from the paraboloid reflector,

in that it is parallel to all of them. Such beam 28a strikes the fluting 23 at a point 29. Its refraction through the lens is determined by the angular disposition that it has to the tangent 30 to the fluted surface at the point 29 and the normal 3] at such point. The beam 28a has an angle of incidence I with the normal 3|. It is refracted by the glass, as shown at 28b, the angle of refraction B being one whose sine is the sine of a, with the glass illustrated. The beam 28 will pass thus through the glass until it reaches a point 33, which is a point of contact with one of the ribs 25, as will appear.

The foregoing illustrations will show the flutes 23 act as concave cylindrical lenses which diifuse the light and widen the area of intense light that strikes the lower ribs 25, while maintaining an even distribution. These cylindrical lenses have curvatures suitable to this purpose and controlled by the limitation that the width of the final area of illumination must be a desired width, and yet the curvature must not ,be so great that the angle of incidence exceeds the critical angle of refraction.

Thus, it will be seen that the beams from the central area of maximum intensity of illumination are spread somewhat when they reach the outer ribs 25 shown on the lower surface of the lens. However, any view of the beam 28b that is taken at right angles to Fig. will find such beam typically represented by a vertical line, owing to the fact that individual beams before and after refraction are parallel to all other similar beams, under the action of these flutes. In Fig. 6, the beam 28a is shown as striking the point 29 of a flute 23, and then passing through to the point 33 on one of the ribs 25. Owing to the curvature of the surface at the point 33, this beam will be initially reflected within the rib. The tangent at the point 33 is indicated at 35, and the normal at 36. The angle 7 between the beam 281) and the normal 35 is greater than the critical angle, so that the beam will be reflected as shown at 280, its angle of reflection being the same as its angle of incidence. However, by being reflected, it strikes the surface of the rib 25 at another point 37, wherein its angle I is less than the critical angle to the normal 38. It will thereby be refracted through the surface and project substantially laterally, as shown at 2811, its ultimate angle of refraction E having a sine approximately three halves of the sine of its angle of incidence I.

It thus may be seen that the beam 28, initially projected directly normally to the lens 20, is finally emitted from the lens in a direction substantially laterally thereof.

Other beams parallel to the beam 28 may strike to the left of it in Fig. 6, and. thereby be reflected less laterally. Beams striking to the right of the point 33 will, within a certain area, be reflected and refracted even more laterally than the beam 28d.

However, the tips of the ribs 25, within a certain area, will receive beams at less than the critical angle of refraction, so that such beams will be refracted directly, rather than internally reflected. Such area is fairly represented by the two demarcations 28c and 28f of Fig. 6, betweenwhich the ribs 25 act as convex cylindrical lenses that focus the beams along lines determined by the curvature of the ribs. In other words, all of the beams striking the ribs between the lines 286 and 28] will be focused into a line 40 that extends parallel with the axis of the cylindrical lens portion. Thereafter, they will again spread and provide illumination directly below the lens. Thus, some of the intense portion of the light delivered from the reflector back of the plane 22 will be reflected and refracted laterally to the remotest points of the area of illumination; whereas other parts of this intense light will be directed downwardly. Also, the valleys between adjacent ribs 25 will act as concave cylindrical lenses in a manner that is well known, and they too will deliver part of the intense light directly downwardly. Also, such light as strikes the lens outside the projection of the plane 22 will be projected both downwardly and outwardly. However, it is important that the intense central portion of the light be deflected to the extremes of the area of illumination because of the decrease in light intensity with distance traveled.

The foregoing lens thus accomplishes the objective of providing substantially illumination in a long narrow area by employing ribs that have surfaces that both refract and reflect the rays. The purpose of the flutings 23 is to control the width of this area. The ribs 25 will perform their function of projecting the light laterally without the presence of the flutings. However, the flutings do give the width aforesaid, and they give it in a manner that can be subject to the control of the ribs, because they do not diffuse the light in miscellaneous directions so that its angles of reflection and refraction from the ribs 25 are not subject to control.

Figs. '7 and 8 show a modification of the foregoing lens, which is used with a similar paraboloid reflector. In this lens, the top surface is generally designated at 50 in Fig. '7. This top surface is divided into two lateral portions 5| and 52 and a central portion 53. In Fig. 10, the central portion is shown in an enlargement as consisting of convex cylindrical ribs 54, whereas the lateral portions 51 and 52 consist of somewhat concave angular ribs 55. The ribs 55, at the left in Fig. 9, are directed as shown in Fig. whereas those ribs in the portion 52, to the right in Fig. 9, project in the opposite directions.

A beam is shown at 58c as entering one of the ribs 54 at the point 59. Such beam will be refracted, as shown at 58b, following the law of refraction. However, the ribs 54 comprise, in their principal parts, cylindrical lenses. Consequently, they will tend to concentrate the rays striking them along lines parallel to the axes of the ribs. Beyond these lines, the beams spread and afford evenly distributed illumination. The bottom crevices between adjacent ribs may have angles to the rays that are such as to cause external reflection of the beams, but such beams then pass through the adjacent ribs. In any case, the refracted beams are all held in planes that are transverse to the axes of the ribs, and are, therefore, parallel to the axes on the lower surface of the lens.

The lateral ribs 5! will receive beams such as the beam 62. The upper surface of each rib 55 curves gradually, but produces some tendency to refract the rays toward the middle of the lens. Thus, the portion 82a of the ray 62 is bent to the position 6219 which is toward the center area 53. The bending becomes increasingly less with rays that strike lower portions of the ribs.

The effect of the arrangement is that the center ribs 53 tend to concentrate the rays through given parallel lines, and to produce an even diffusion of these rays for their ultimate distribution by the lower ribs. The side sections 5! and 52, in this type of lens, direct the beams generally inwardly. They pick up beams that are beyond the projection of the plane 22 and dispose them somewhat inwardly. As these ribs on the top surface are paral el to the longitudinal axis of the ultimate area of illumination, it may generally be stated that they provide concentration of the rays in such wise as to afford even distribution across the narrow axis of the area of illumination.

The lower surface of the lens in this modification has a series of lower ribs 65 at one side and a series of lower ribs 66 at the other side, with a center rib 61 between them. The enlargement of Fig. 12 shows the center rib 61 flanked by one of the lower ribs 65 and one of the lower ribs 66.

Reference to Fig. 12 shows each rib 65 as having a curved lower surface 10 terminating in an almost vertical surface 1|. An arcuate surface 72 joins the adjacent surface ll of one rib with the surface 10 of the next. The ribs 66 are similarly shaped, but turned oppositely. The center rib 61 is formed by two curved surfaces 73 and 14.

The function of these ribs is to bend light out into an elongated, relatively narrow illumination pattern that may have substantially 180 extent. The light rays from the reflector reaching these lower ribs are generally in planes parallel to the axes of the lower ribs and of controlled total lateral extent transversely to the main light pattern, as a result of passing through the inner, or upper, ribs.

The total light reaching these lower ribs consists of the parallel reflected rays, the direct rays, and strays.

The surfaces is are preferably arcuate or approximately so, and disposed so they will partly act upon the rays from the reflector as portions of cylindrical lenses that direct light toward a line below their common center line. This will be largely true of all rays coming from the reflector and striking these surfaces 10 from approximately the middle down to the top of each. Above this middle line, these reflector rays will largely be internally reflected, owing to the fact that the angle of incidence is greater than the critical angle for glass and air.

The precise location of the division or middle line is subject to variation. However, a desirable lens has resulted from making the ribs .1932" between centers and .1875" deep from the upper part of the surfaces [2 to the tips where the surfaces 10 and H intersect. The surfaces 12 are on .0156" radius, and the surfaces ii slope .008 from their intersection with the arcuate surfaces 12 to the tips. The surfaces H! are curved on a .372 radius. The center rib (Bl has a .25" width between centers of its flanking surfaces 12 and has its surfaces '53 and M on a .297 radius. All teeth in. the illustration are equally deep. For a lens with effective radius of 6.2075, the paraboloid reflector may have its focus ll, at which the filament is located, spaced 2 /2" above the upper surface of the lens. Preferably, the lower surface of the lens, formed by the tip edges of the ribs, slopes upwardly and outwardly from the center rib. For the sizes given, the outer ribs 65 and 66 are -3;" above the center rib Bl. Such lamp provides a clear, elongated light pattern, particularly when spaced about 14 feet above the ground.

The design typified by the foregoing dimensions produces the oblong pattern of illumination. Rays made perpendicular by the reflector, plus direct perpendicular rays at the center, are

pread in a path determined by the lateral extent of the upper flutings 53, as shown at 58?), and confined by the sections 5! and 52, as shown at 62b. The lens is normally high enough from the ground to give a cross-over effect by the cylindrical ribs 54, and this combination of the upper flutes concentrates the light within a pat tern of chosen width.

The ribs 55 and 55 act oppositely. Above their division line aforesaid, the reflected rays b, in parallel planes parallel to the length of the bottom ribs, are internally reflected as shown at 890 from the surfaces l6. They then are refracted at 30d outwardly and downwardly from the surfaces ll, giving illumination in an intermediate area lengthwise from the lamp. Rays of this group striking the lens below the division line of the critical angle are refracted downwardly and outwardly, but somewhat less outwardly than the first group, and illuminating an area extending to below the lamp. This area below the lamp is also illuminated b rays passing through the concave cylindrical surfaces 12.

Direct rays from the filament can strike the lens and pass to the lower ribs, as shown at 8213. (Actually, a ray having the illustrated angle would pass into a rib 5E5 much further from the center.) Such rays are reflected from the surface Tfi internally, at 82c, and then are refracted outwardly at 8202 to provide the greatest longitu- 7 dinal reaches of the pattern of illumination. Other direct rays striking the lower ribs further from the center cannot meet the surface 10, and are refracted downwardly from the surfaces H in one of the nearer areas of the pattern. It thus appears that, with this lens, a primary source of the most endwise illumination is the direct rays, such as 82d. The quantity of such rays is a function of the angles between them and the plane of the lens, and of the distance between the lens and the filament. In design of the lens, this quantity of rays is also a function of the depth of the bottom ribs and the angles of the normals to the surface at the points such rays strike the surface H3.

The center rib 51 typifies a ribbing that not only divides the sections 65 and 65, but also participates in the division of the light. Rays 33b striking below the dividing line at the critical angle for the surfaces l3 and M pass downwardly at 830, as from two sections of a cylindrical lens, and illuminate an area directly below the lamp. Rays such as 84b, striking above this division line, are internally reflected at 840 from one surface, as M, to the other surface E3, from which they are refracted at 8M outwardly in large quantity to the far reaches of the pattern of illumination. The number of such middle ribs 6'! may be varied as a means of increasing the illumination at the extremes.

Fig. 14 shows a lens divided into quadrants, and having outer ribbing configured like either Fig. 6 or Fig. 12. As will be apparent, such lens is valuable at intersections, to throw a cross-shaped light pattern.

The result of all the foregoing is a light pattern that gives brilliant illumination over an oblong pattern extending substantially 180 in a diametrical plane perpendicular to the face of the lens. This lens, made in accordance with the dimensions cited for Figs. 7-14, gives a more intense illumination in the near area than in the far reaches, as is desirable in certain installations. It illustrates the use of a large number of ribs across a lens, having parts that reflect and other parts that refract the rays, and ribs that distribute both the direct and the reflected rays into an elongated pattern of illumination with minimum lateral deviation from such pattern.

It is, of course, not contended that the prismatic or lenticular theories of reflection and refraction are new. What the applicant claims, as set forth hereinafter, is a construction combining particular types of prism-lens arrangements that achieve a particular result in a desirable way.

What is claimed is:

l. A lens for use with a parabolic reflector and a light source therein, the lens comprising a substantially planar piece of glass or like lighttransmitting material adapted to extend across the reflector and having an area greater than the area of a plane through the focal point of the reflector parallel to the plane of the lens, the lens having its outer surface covered With a plurality of closely spaced elongated ribs that extend in parallelism, all of the ribs being as follows: each rib having a smoothly curved surface on one of its sides from its base to its tip edge, the normal to said smoothly curved surface adjacent the base of the rib being at an angle to a normal to the plane of the glass that is greater than the critical angle of the glass, the normal to said surface adjacent the tip of the rib being at an angle less than the critical angle of the glass, and intermediate normals between said two normals grading smoothly from one to the other, whereby light entering the lens in planes parallel to the ribs will be internally reflected by the smoothly curved surfaces thereof whereof the angles are greater than the critical angle, and will be refracted outwardly by the surfaces whereon the angles are less than the critical angle, and each rib having another surface on its other side that refracts the rays thus internally reflected, and discharges them laterally of the lens, the grooves on the outer surface between adjacent ribs being smoothly curved and providing small, concave surfaces; and the inner surface of the lens being shaped to direct rays into the lens Without refracting them transversely of the ribs.

2. A lens for use with a parabolic reflector and a light source therein, the lens comprising a substantially planar piece of glass or like lighttransmitting material adapted to extend across the reflector and having an area greater than the area of a plane through the focal point of the reflector parallel to the plane of the lens, the lens having its outer surface covered with a plurality of closely spaced elongated ribs that extend in parallelism, all of the ribs being as follows: each rib having a smoothly curved surface on one of its sides from its base to its tip edge. the normal to said smoothly curved surface adjacent the base of the rib being at an angle to a normal to the plane of the glass that is greater than the critical angle of the glass, the normal to said surface adjacent the tip of the rib being at an angle less than the critical angle of the glass, and intermediate normals between said two normals grading smoothly from one to the other, whereby light entering the lens in planes parallel to the ribs will be internally reflected by the smoothly curved surfaces thereof whereof the angles are greater than the critical angle, and will be refracted outwardly by the surfaces whereon the angles are less than the critical angle, and each rib having another surface on its other side that refracts the rays thus internally reflected, and discharges them laterally of the lens, said rib surfaces on the two sides of each rib together constituting a generally sinusoidal curvature from the base of the rib on one side to the base of the rib on the other; the grooves on the outer surface between adjacent ribs being smoothly curved and providing small, concave surfaces; and the inner surface of the lens being shaped to direct rays into the lens without refracting them transversely of the ribs.

3. A lens for use with a parabolic reflector and a light source therein, the lens comprising a substantially planar piece of glass or like lighttransmitting material adapted to extend across the reflector and having an area greater than the area of a plane through the focal point of the reflector parallel to the plane of the lens, the lens having its outer surface covered with a plurality of closely spaced elongated ribs that extend in parallelism, all of the ribs being as follows: each rib having a smoothly curved surface on one of its sides from its base to its tip edge, the normal to said smoothly curved surface adjacent the base of the rib being at an angle to a normal to the plane of the glass that is greater than the critical angle of the glass, the normal to said surface adjacent the tip of the rib being at an angle less than the critical angle of the glass, and intermediate normal between said two normals grading smoothly from one to the other,

whereby light entering the lens in planes parallel to the ribs will be internally reflected by the smoothly curved surfaces thereof whereof the angles are greater than the critical angle, and will be refracted outwardly by the surfaces whereon the angles are less than the critical angle, and each rib having another surface on its other side that refracts the rays thus internally reflected, and discharges them laterally of the lens, said other rib surface of substantially all of the ribs being substantially flat and being at an acute angle to a normal to the plane of the lens, and merging into the said one surface of the rib in an edge; the grooves on the outer surface between adjacent ribs being smoothly curved and providing small, concave surfaces; and the inner surface of the lens being shaped to direct rays into the lens without refracting them transversely of the ribs.

4. A lens for use with a parabolic reflector and a light source therein, the lens comprising a substantially planar piece of glass or like lighttransmitting material adapted to extend across the reflector and having an area greater than the area of a plane through the focal point of the reflector parallel to the plane of the lens, the lens having its outer surface covered with a plurality of closely spaced elongated ribs that extend in parallelism, all of the ribs being as follows: each rib having a smoothly curved surface on one of its sides from its base to its tip edge, the normal to said smoothly curved surface adjacent the base of the rib being at an angle to a normal to the plane of the glass that is greater than the critical angle of the glass, the normal to said surface adjacent the tip of the rib being at an angle less than the critical angle of the glass, and intermediate normals between said two normals grading smoothly from one to the other, whereby light entering the lens in planes parallel to the ribs will be internally reflected by the smoothly curved surfaces thereof whereof the angles are greater than the critical angle, and will be refracted outwardly by the surfaces whereon the angles are less than the critical angle, and each rib having another surface on its other side that refracts the rays thus internally reflected, and discharges them laterally of the lens, said other rib surf-ace of substantially all of the ribs being substantially flat and being at an acute angle to a normal to the plane of the lens, and merging into the said one surface of the rib in an edge, the ribs on opposite sides of a medial line facing in opposite directions; the grooves on the outer surface between adjacent ribs being smoothly curved and providing small, concave surfaces; and the inner surface of the lens being shaped to direct rays into the lens without refracting them transversely of the ribs.

5. A lens for use with a parabolic reflector and a light source therein, the lens comprising a substantially planar piece Of glass or like lighttransmitting material adapted to extend across the reflector and having an area greater than the area of a plane through the focal point of the reflector parallel to the plane of the lens, the lens having its outer surface covered with a plurality of closely spaced elongated ribs that ex tend in parallelism, all of the ribs being as follows: each rib having a smoothly curved surface on one of its sides from its base to its tip edge, the normal to said smoothly curved surface adjacent the base of the rib being at an angle to a normal to the plane of the glass that is greater than the critical angle of the glass, the normal to said surface adjacent the tip of the rib being at an angle less than the critical angle of the glass, and intermediate normals between said two normals grading smoothly from one to the other, whereby light entering the lens in planes parallel to the ribs will be internally reflected by the smoothly curved surfaces thereof whereof the angles are greater than the critical angle, and will be refracted outwardly by the surfaces whereon the angles are less than the critical angle, and each rib having another surface on its other side that refracts the rays thus internally reflected, and discharges them laterally of the lens, the grooves on the outer surface between adjacent ribs being smoothly curved and providing small, concave surfaces; and the inner surface of the lens being shaped to direct rays into the lens without refracting them transversely of the ribs, the said shaping of the inner surface comprising a plurality of internal ribs at right angles to the external ribs, said internal ribs being shaped to spread the rays of light only in a direction at to the spread by the external ribs. JOHN L. LEHMAN.

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